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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 21. 



Listen! Take my Advice and Buy 

 s«Yoni' Bee-Snp|)lies*a 



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Wurbinti Wux into Fouiida- 



of Anost Weiss ! % 



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onipetltion 

 II 

 Foundation 



Millions of Sections — Polisht on both Sides ! ! 



SATISFACTION GUARANTEFO on a full line of Suppllee. Seod for a Catalogue and 

 be your own judge. Wax wanted at 26 cents cash, or 28 cents In trade, delivered to me. 



AUGUST WEISS. Hortonville, ^Wisconsin. 



BRANCH OF THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY, 



10 VINE STREET ==^=___ 

 PHILADELPHIA, PENN. 



We keep here everythiug in the Supply line of latest improvement. 



Cleated Separators, Improved Smokers, Weed Foundation, 1898 Goods of all kinds. 



Busine^s conducted same as at Medina. 



Dealers can order here, as well as consumers, at factory prices. 



Save freight and gel orders filled at once. Also as fine a strain of 3 and -i-banded 



Italian Bees as ever gathered honey. 

 Full 8-frame colonies, $6.00 ; 3-frame nucleus, $2.75. 



14Ktf Tlie§e Include Oiiaranleeil llalian <tiiecii§. 



BEE-SUPPLIES ! 



We have the bpi-t eijulpt faciory In the West. Capacity 

 1 cur load a day; and cany the largest stock and ^ref^tfst 

 variety ot everything- needed in the apiary, asj^u ring- best 

 goads at the lowest prices, and prompt shipment. 

 Illustrated Catalog, 72 Pages, Free. 

 We also manufacture TANKS of either wood or sral- 

 vanlzed si eel. all sizes, any foim, and for all purposes. 

 Price-list Free. Address, 



E. KRETCHnEK, Ked Oak, Iowa. 



Please mention the American Bee Journal when writing. 



BEES, HONEY, MONEY 



Queens for Business. 

 Snuplles at Bottom Prices. 



*' Bee-Keeping" for Beginners,'" price 50 cents, 

 Imparts the inatructloo. Price-List free. 



J. P. H. BKOWN, Augusta, Ga. 



RF.FX HMa Italian ((IIRFJS! 



Tested Queens. *1.00 each: Uutested, 50c. 

 2-Frame Nucleus of Bees with good Queen $2. 

 Prompt and satisfactory dealing. 



Address, E. I.. CAKKIINGTON. 



llAtf De Funiak Springs. Fla. 



Bee -Hives, Sections. Shipping- 

 Cases — everythiug used by bee- 

 keepers. Orders tilled promptly. 

 Send for catalog. .lllMESdW BEE- 

 KEEPERS' SUPPLY SIKH. CO., Nicollet 

 Island, Minneapolis, Minn. 



GOLDEN BEAUTIES... 



Three-band Italian Queens reared from 

 Roofs stock. Golden Queens, from the 

 best selected stock. Untested. .iO cents; 

 Tested. 75 cents. Carnlolan Queens at 

 same price. 



E. Y. TERRAL. & CO., 



Cameron, Tcxa§. 



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Bee-lieepers" PliotograpU.— We 



have now on hand a limited number of ex- 

 cellent photographs ot prominent bee-keep- 

 ers — a number of pictures on one card. The 

 likeness of 49 of them are shown on one of 

 the photographs, and 121 on the other. We 

 will send them, postpaid, for .30 cts. a card, 

 mailing from the 121 kind first; then after 

 they are all gone, we will send the Vi kind. 

 So those who order first will get the most 

 " faces " for their money. Send orders to 

 the Bee Journal office. 



Ho, for Omaha ! 



As we have many customers in the Northwest, and believing' 

 they will appreciate the low freight rates obtained by purchas- 

 iog- goods from a railroad center nearer to them than we are. get- 

 tiug: a direct through-freight rate, thus cutting- the freight in half, 

 we have establl&ht a branch house at 17u0 South 13th 8t., Omaha, 

 Neb., where we will keep a complete line of all Apiarian Supplies, 

 the same as we do at Higginsviile, Mo. With the quality of our 

 goods, we believe most bte-keepers in the West are already 

 acquainted, but to those who are not, we will say that our goods 

 _ are par escellent. Poiisht, snowy-white fceotions, beautiful straw- 



coloied trautpiirent Foundation, improved Smokers and Honey l^xtractora. and all other flrst- 

 clas sgoods. are what we stll. Kind and courteous treatment and honorable dealing our motto. 

 On these basee, we solicit sn order, feeling sure that if we sell you one bill of goods you will be 

 our customer in the future. 



^^Pkoohessive BeeKeepeb, 50c per year. "Amateur Bee-Keeper," 25c. Both for 65c.. 

 postpaid. Sample copy of the Progressive free, and a beautiful Catalog for the asking. 



Address, ^^^^ Maiiiifactiirlng Company, ^im'^rJ^^{l\^.\u. ^«..y.^.^,^. 



old hive. A blacker and an angrier colony 

 ot bees you never saw. They were so thick 

 on the comb that we could not see it. 



After they were divided they swarmed 

 just the same. After they got done swarm- 

 ing I had four fair colonies, and one very 

 weak one. We took off of these small colo- 

 nies about 75 pounds of fine alfalfa honey. 

 They have wintered fine this far, and I hope 

 to have them build up strong. 



Leslie Hazen. 



Nemaha Co., Kan., March 13. 



Bee Keeping in the "Old Dominion." 



Bees did tolerably well for me last season. 

 I had 44 colonies, mostly blacks, in the 

 spring, and did not increase much, not more 

 than tour or five colonies. I got about 3,O0U 

 pounds of comb honey, mostly white clover, 

 as we had a splendid crop of it last season, 

 and a very good flow from buckwheat ai^d 

 fall flowers. I sold most of my honey m 

 the home market for IS'.j cents — some at 15 

 cents — but later on iu the season I had to 

 sell at 10 cents, as honey came in from some 

 one else and cut the price. 



I have now 43 colonies which are, I think, 

 in very good condition. I do not think bees 

 wintered very well here, as I hear a great 

 deal of complaint about them dying. The 

 winter has been quite open — not much real 

 cold weather. The temperature has not 

 been below zero during the winter — then 

 only for one or two days at that point. I 

 lost three or four colonies by neglecting to 

 feed them more last fall. 



Bees were flying for several days last 

 week, and I fed them some while it was 

 warm. 



I am preparing to use all tall sections next 

 season— only those of the 414 x4i4Xl's which 

 have starters of foundation in them, and 

 others that the bees made comb in and did 

 not get them filled. I have about 5U0 of 

 them on hand, and will be ready when the 

 season opens. 



I also tried the Pettit system, to get the 

 bees to the outside sections, and it workt 

 like a charm; but I got pretty tired of 

 boring so many holes, as I had no boring 

 machine, and had to do it with a common 

 brace. 



I will use fence separators next season, as 

 I tried them sufficiently last season to know 

 that they are the best. 



I would like to thank Mr. Wilcox, of 

 Pennsylvania, for his kind answer to my 

 question about the locust bloom. I took 

 notice and found it just as he said. 



P. I. Hdffman. 



Rockbridge Co., Va., Feb. 17. 



A Hint on Section-Cleaners. 



On page 103 " Wisconsin's " suggestion 

 to Mr. Golden about the felt is business. 

 May I make a suggestion '. I would not use 

 any of the glue on any of the sandpaper. It 

 dries hard and stiff, and you injure the 

 elasticity of the cushion. In the machine 

 shops we use the felt on the wheels, and on 

 the blocks on the bench, and some have 

 blocks of cu/'A' for hand work. The felt or 

 cushion under the paper not only does nicer 

 work, but the sandpaper will wear much 

 longer than without it. We fasten our 

 paper this way: 



A little glue will keep the felt in place. 

 Saw across the face of the wheel about 

 two or more saw-kerfs wide, and Jj or one 

 inch deep; cut the paper so it will just 

 draw tightly around the wheel, and each 

 end turn sharply down so they will just 

 tuck in the saw-kerf smooth and tight. 

 Drive a strip of tin or wood between the 

 ends of the paper a little below the surface 

 cfear ocrufis. It will not work out, and 

 when the paper is worn out draw the tin 

 wedge, and the paper comes right off 

 readily. You Can renew ttd Uhituiu, with no 

 bother with the glue, and you always have 

 a soft, yielding cushion. Now, this is my 

 plan, and I never use glue to make the 

 paper hard, and two or more thicknesses 

 will do it. 



Some might say that in this way there 

 will be a seam where the ends come to- 

 gether. True, but the ends of the folded 



